This is a story about how one Yahoo! Store merchant used FastPivot RTML programmers to update Coolibar’s Yahoo! Store with a custom product selection display and a real-time customer-oriented inventory interface–all without a single pucker from those glitchy lemons everyone in the ecommerce world hates to deal with. When merchants first launch their online stores
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How to Keep Your Ecommerce Product Page SEO From Slithering Away
Like the Egyptian cobra which just escaped from the Bronx Zoo, your ecommerce product page SEO could have slithered through the cracks too. The good news is that Bronx Zoo officials expect to catch their elusive cobra within weeks. The bad news is that your product page SEO may never be found; that is, unless
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Recent Upgrade to Yahoo! Store Floating Mini-Cart Empowers Chrome Users
Back in March of 2010, Yahoo! Store officials announced that a new “Floating Cart Manager” could be installed within Yahoo! Stores. FastPivot responded immediately by offering merchants a Yahoo! Store floating shopping cart feature option. Just the other day a new update made the Yahoo! Store Floating Mini-Cart available in Chrome. Prior to this ,
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Internet Retailer & Yahoo! Store Blog Features FastPivot's Custom Facebook Contest App. Built for eCreamery
When we first published the ecommerce success story, showcasing the Facebook contest app. custom-built for eCreamery‘s icecream contest, we knew this was big news, but had no idea it would gain the attention of national web media so quickly. The article, “eCreamery Lures Shoppers With a Contest” by Zak Stambor debuted on Internet Retailer’s news
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How Customer Service Made The Difference to This Yahoo! Store Merchant
When Poopbags.com was searching for the right Yahoo! Store agency to help install some enhanced features for their Yahoo! Store, they had no idea they would find Leta Krieger at FastPivot. She was what made the immediate difference between FastPivot and the six or seven others Poopbags.com spoke with about getting such enhanced features as
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How Ecommerce Merchants Should React to Google's Recent Algorithm Reconfiguration
eWeek.com’s recent article “Google Algorithm Change Targets Content Farms” is important news for us all to consider. Though most ecommerce merchants strive to do the right thing, it’s not hard, especially when every stroke of strategy counts, to slip into the ditch of SEO sleaze. Once done, it’s tough to climb out and scrape off
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10 Reasons to Consider a New Design for Your Ecommerce Website
We’re well underway into 2011 and hopefully you took some time in the last 30 days to review last years results and develop a ’11 strategy. The web has changed so much in the past year that it has also impacted shoppers purchasing behaviour. To stay competitive in today’s changing climate, your website has to
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Our Top Ten Ecommerce & Social Media Blogs of 2010
2010 was a great year for FastPivot. As can be seen by our “Top Ten Ecommerce & Social Media Blogs” below, the most popular interests driving traffic to the FastPivot Ecommerce Blog can be summarized by these hash tags: #Google vs. #Bing #Yahoo! #Facebook #Twitter, #FastPivot #Social-Media-Roadmapping #Seminar #Duke-University, #Social-Media-Map-for-Ecommerce, #Organizational-Chart-for-Social-Media, #Ecommerce #SEO, #How-to-add-Facebook-Splash-Page, #International-Ecommerce
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What's the Best Ecommerce System?
Six months ago, a member of Linkedin’s E-commerce network group posed this discussion question: “What ecommerce system are you using or what do you like best?” To date over 500 comments have been logged. The latest comment was made yesterday by FastPivot’s CEO & Co-Founder, Matthew Ledford: Matthew Ledford • I agree with Arturas and
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FastPivot Wishes Everyone a Happy New Year!
As we start this new year, we at FastPivot, wish you all peace, joy, and prosperity throughout 2011. We would also like to take a moment to express our appreciation for each and every one of you, because at FastPivot, our clients are family! As 2011 unfolds, all of us at FastPivot look forward to
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